Disgusting mess of unbelievable amount of dead blowies left at Keene st jetty

Went for a fish/ crab this arvo and just about fell over with shock and the terrible smell of how many blowies were slaughtered. As much as i hate them i think this is wrong. They have a place in the river ( help keep it clean) and arent an introduced species like some think and to leave them on the jetty like this will only give us all a bad name . Couple pics for yaz....

 

 

Disgusting mess of unbelivable amount of dead blowies left at Keene st jetty by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr Disgusting mess of unbelievable amount of dead blowies left at Keene st jetty by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

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 Thats just sick :S

Mon, 2011-12-26 22:36

 Thats just sick :S

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Geez

Mon, 2011-12-26 22:44

Thats a bad session. On a side get any crabs / fish

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Nah man. one undersized crab

Mon, 2011-12-26 22:46

Nah man. one undersized crab caught on my rod lol

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Yeah some people have no

Mon, 2011-12-26 22:51

Yeah some people have no idea.....There are millions of the critters in the Swan, this makes no impact apart from leaving a stinking mess. D##kheads

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wow ive never seen so

Tue, 2011-12-27 01:30

wow ive never seen so many.........................on a jetty...... dont know how you would even catch that many id give up after the 4th

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People that leave this shit

Tue, 2011-12-27 00:38

aren't fishos , these are the same species that smash the windows of your cars at  your favourite fishing hole !!!! Low lifes with no respect for anything.......

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that's a disgrace

Tue, 2011-12-27 00:46

gives every fisho a bad name.

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That sucks.

Tue, 2011-12-27 06:52

If the offenders are caught they should be given community service duties with the council cleanup crews, And banned from fishing for good.

Marc, they are not an introduced species, but they still don't really belong there.  Before C.Y O'Connor cleared out the limestone and sandbars between 1892-1903 the swan was a fresh water system.  Once the port changes were made, it became an estuary and then the blowies came along.

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Thats horrifying... Blowies

Tue, 2011-12-27 07:49

Thats horrifying... Blowies are like the garbage trucks in the river, the river would be a lot worse without them... and slaughtering that many, or even killing each one you catch like i know a fair few do will not effect anything at all... this is disgusting

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Its interesting how the

Tue, 2011-12-27 07:59

Its interesting how the fisherys department say take care of blowys and gently put them back in the water as they have an important job to do in the river but all the rivers in W.A that don't have blowys are doing fine without them.

 

I do a bit of bream fishing with lures and let all mine go anyway ..

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Agree

Thu, 2011-12-29 19:32

totally.

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Thats wrong! people have been

Tue, 2011-12-27 08:20

Thats wrong! people have been hung for less!

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hahah

Tue, 2011-12-27 08:33

i might be the only one here to say this. but i think thats awesome... KILL EM ALL! 

 

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Here we go

Tue, 2011-12-27 08:36

You've done it now

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 Good to have you back

Thu, 2011-12-29 19:37

 Good to have you back mate.........hhhahahahahaha

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Blowies

Tue, 2011-12-27 09:07

Leaving a mess like that is not a good look, but returning blowies to the water????

If this is the catch off ONE jetty then I would suggest these are in plague proportions.

Could have been a couple of kids doing what kids do, let's not be too quick to throw them in irons, and deport them to the colony.......

 

 

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Crab net with small mesh will

Tue, 2011-12-27 09:12

Crab net with small mesh will catch that many in a couple of drops.

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A Couple

Tue, 2011-12-27 10:06

of quality pics is all that is needed to tell a story.

Well done Marc,

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Two wrongs dont make a right?

Tue, 2011-12-27 10:20

Two wrongs dont make a right? did you clean it up or just photograph it and make yourself into some hero as to how bad those people were doing that.

 

Get my point.

 

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Good one dickhead!

Tue, 2011-12-27 10:51

Good one dickhead! How the hell is that 2 wrongs? How do you know that i didnt try! and where the f**k were you meant to put them all. Some idiot took the bin away from the jetty. If it were still there i would of cleaned it up. if you knew me you would know that i always do the right thing. I did notify the council. How about you head down there and clean it mate

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It's all your fault

Tue, 2011-12-27 11:51

Yeah Marc It's all your fault LMFAO , Nice comment Michael  .

I'm glad you showed this picture Marc, because its things like this that will shut down the use of fishing platforms for every one. By posting the pictures it might make people think twice before creating such a mess.

I don't like blowies but to leave them in a public place like that is just wrong . As a dog owner i have had problems before with my dog picking up crap like that and getting sick.

The amount of blowies there makes me doubt they were caught by hook and line, I have seen this sort of thing before and usualy is the result of a throw net.

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Glad you clarified that.  Had

Tue, 2011-12-27 20:58

Glad you clarified that.  Had you said that in your initial post then you would not get all huffy and puffy. 

PS: possibly grow up with the language side a bit will you.

 

I dont mine being abused but there are some guidelines about the language on these posts (Unless you are exempt from all rules)

 

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michael

Tue, 2011-12-27 21:19

 i can just see your going to be a delight on the forum

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lol

Fri, 2011-12-30 15:21

lol

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Im sorry Marc, but Im with Mr

Thu, 2011-12-29 15:42

Im sorry Marc, but Im with Mr Yoni on this one. All you have achieved by posting those pictures has made thousands of people aware that there are still dickheads out there that constantly do the wrong thing with no regard for the wider fishing community who ultimately get painted with the same brush. We are far better off doing nothing and looking the other way by sticking our heads up our asses........Perhaps that is why Mr Yoni doesnt '...mine being abused'

Good one Yoni, I can see that you are going to be a lot of fun.

(p.s. incase you didnt notice, Im actually with Mr Russo on this one)

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Yep

Mon, 2012-09-24 23:53

Here we go again!!!!!!!

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you're an idiot MY

Tue, 2011-12-27 12:17

you're an idiot MY

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why would you say that

Tue, 2011-12-27 12:19

why would you say that michael

idiot.

get MY point?

 

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lets rename michael to get my

Wed, 2011-12-28 15:53

lets rename michael to get my point

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ahahahahha... .git em

Tue, 2011-12-27 10:22

ahahahahha... .git em boyyyyyy 

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I hope they took a few home

Tue, 2011-12-27 11:07

I hope they took a few home and ate 'em hehe.

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guesss whosss backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.......

Tue, 2011-12-27 12:26

 hahahahahha 0o0o0o yeh thats myy hekserrr...

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 haha, thought he'd been

Tue, 2011-12-27 13:09

 haha, thought he'd been quiet for a while...

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i say kill as many as possible!

Tue, 2011-12-27 13:50

there are trillions of them and an army of men couldnt wipe them out! but seriously clean the bastards up!

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I argree with Grant,,some

Tue, 2011-12-27 14:09

I agree with Grant,,some sort of net was used to catch these IMO.

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 Not the first time seen this

Tue, 2011-12-27 14:56

 Not the first time seen this happen, its done by crab nets and dropping bait or berley in the vincinity and the net is quickly hauled up.

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or people with cast nets  

Tue, 2011-12-27 14:59

or people with cast nets

 

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you know the story

Tue, 2011-12-27 16:07

fishos banned from jetties etc.

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That is just horrible. Dont

Wed, 2011-12-28 14:16

That is just horrible. Dont see why you couldnt stop after catching say.. 10 or 15?? What a disgrace! Gives us all a bad name...

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No excuse at all for that

Wed, 2011-12-28 15:12

No excuse at all for that kind of shite. Definately the type of ammo the greenies need to feed their anti-fishing campaign. These are the types of wankers that abuse bag limits and have no respect for the marine enviroment.

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I don't really see the point

Wed, 2011-12-28 16:02

I don't really see the point in NOT throwing blowies back.

As others have said killing a few/a/dozen/a hundred or more makes no difference to their actual numbers.

All you're doing is forcing something into a generally slow and unpleasant death.

I wouldn't do that to anything I was gonna eat, and I sure as hell won't do it to anything I can't eat either.

Just my 2 cents of course, I don't judge others for their preferences. But that level of pointless slaughter is pretty sickening.

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No comments you say anything

Wed, 2011-12-28 16:24

No comments you say anything on this site lately and you get ya balls busted.

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You can say what you like

Wed, 2011-12-28 18:33

You can say what you like mate, doesn't mean everyone has to agree with what your saying.

Everyone has an opinion and thats The beauty of Internet forums. :)

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could mass blowie culls be

Thu, 2011-12-29 15:47

could mass blowie culls be used to make garden fertilizer?

 

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'Mass Blowies' has a certain

Thu, 2011-12-29 15:53

'Mass Blowies' has a certain ring to it I think.

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Could almost see

Fri, 2011-12-30 14:02

Marcs pic making it into Picture or People mag with that tag attached LOL

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Lol

Thu, 2011-12-29 16:43

Lol

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i can see it now fw mass

Thu, 2011-12-29 16:56

i can see it now

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can you buy them from

Fri, 2011-12-30 15:28

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Disgusting

Fri, 2011-12-30 11:38

Disgusting that is just sick 

you can't do that.

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i rekon kill them in a humane

Fri, 2011-12-30 15:27

i rekon kill them in a humane way. its been a real long time since i caught a bream instead of a fuckn blowie. they're everywhere. At canning bridge theres so many i can pretty much walk on water by using them as stepping stones

its ridiculous.

Find a less painful way to get rid of them and im for it :)

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 i have absulotely no problem

Sun, 2012-09-23 18:21

 i have absulotely no problem with people killing blowies, no matter how brutal, cos they're pests, equivalent of a plague of rats, helping the river in no way whatsoever. they may be cleaning the river but at the same time they're supressing the bream population. If the blowies were gone, then the bream population would skyrocket and they would take over the exact same role as the blowies, cleaning the river. I'm all for a blowie cull, but don't leave them on the fucking jetty like that, an easy way to dispose of them perhaps would be a bonfire...

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Your profound knowledge of

Tue, 2012-09-25 13:55

Your profound knowledge of the swan ecosystem astounds me.......................I'm sure that bream and blowfish are competing for the same food and fill the same ecological niche.

 

I'm glad your not in charge of river management.

So the blowies clean the river, but they are not doing any good??

No one likes them, but a cull will do sweet fuck all for the bream population. I think we better worry about the big pictures, eg erosion, river run off and salinity.

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yep

Mon, 2012-09-24 17:34

Kill as many as you want.Better rotting in the sun then in the river alive..This picture is a good thing.

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Nope thats disgusting. No one

Mon, 2012-09-24 17:51

Nope thats disgusting. No one likes catching blowies but have a bit of respect.

 

On another note if a dog eats them there is a good chance it will die if it does not get its stomached pumped. So whats been done there is pathetic.

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yeh true.

Tue, 2012-09-25 13:57

they should have cleaned them up .

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save the whales...who the hell is going to save the planet

Tue, 2012-09-25 14:54

with this sort of thing going on it won't take much for the councils to start closing down these facilities that have given such great enjoyment and an introduction to fishing to young ankle biters.It is up to responsable people to notify the authoritise if you see a pig going about this type of activity the mobile phone is a great tool to be used to stop people doing this type of thing, my money is on kids with crab nets and a big peice of boredum